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  NASA J-2X rocket engine enters second phase of testing

  By Aaron Souppouris on April 25, 2012 08:08 am + 7 comments

  NASA's next-generation J-2X rocket engine is ready for a second phase of testing, following a Continue reading…

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  NASA begins testing GPS-based earthquake and tsunami detection system

  By Amar Toor on April 25, 2012 02:33 am

  NASA announced today that it has begun testing a GPS system designed to locate the precise position Continue reading…

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  High school students launch NASA's rubber chicken into solar radiation storm

  By Andrew Webster on April 20, 2012 10:56 am + 32 comments

  When Bishop, California-based high school group Earth to Sky wanted to learn more about solar Continue reading…

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  Space Shuttle Discovery retires to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

  By T.C. Sottek on April 19, 2012 08:09 pm + 47 comments

  We were fortunate enough to be in attendance at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum today, Continue reading…

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  Space Shuttle Discovery's 747 flight over Washington, DC documented in photos

  By Nathan Ingraham on April 17, 2012 12:13 pm + 25 comments

  As part of Discovery's farewell tour, the venerable Space Shuttle was strapped to the back of a Continue reading…

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  NASA wants scientists and technologists worldwide to help with the next Mars mission

  By Adi Robertson on April 16, 2012 08:55 am + 15 comments

  Despite funding uncertainty, NASA is still pushing to send humans to Mars by the 2030s, and it's Continue reading…

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  Sky & Telescope creates accurate $99 Moon globe using images from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

  By Andrew Webster on April 11, 2012 05:20 pm + 2 comments

  Astronomy magazine Sky & Telescope is now selling a 12-inch globe that it claims is the first to Continue reading…

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  Space Shuttle Discovery to be strapped to a 747 and flown over Washington, DC on April 17th

  By Nathan Ingraham on April 10, 2012 12:05 pm + 21 comments

  NASA may have ended the Space Shuttle program last year, but the shuttle Discovery will get one more Continue reading…

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  NASA scientist calls climate change a moral issue on par with slavery

  By Jeff Blagdon on April 9, 2012 05:00 am + 106 comments

  Professor Jim Hansen, one of the world's foremost researchers on the subject of global warming, Continue reading…

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  In the world's quietest place, 'you become the sound'

  By Adi Robertson on April 5, 2012 12:57 pm + 68 comments

  The quietest place on Earth is a room in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and the longest anyone has stayed Continue reading…